I don't know why, but I've been subscribed to you for quite some time now but I haven't been getting any of your videos when they drop. Do you know what might be happening? Or why? I have no trouble getting anyone else's drops, so I don't know. I pressed the bell icon when I subscribed, but I have no idea why it's happening, unless it's RUclips itself? I don't know mate. All I do know is that it's not your fault mate. I don't blame you in the slightest. Anyway, thanks for this interesting video upload. I really appreciate these kinds of videos, as they show direct links to modern day Anti-Semitism and racism more broadly. Thanks again, mate 👍
This is probably the best foreign-language video talking about this chapter of history. As a Czech (and a massive history geek), i thank you for this. CZECHIA MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣❗❗❗ WHAT THE HELL IS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 🔥🔥🔥🔥❓❓❓
one correction is that the blood libel is much older than William of Norwich and the Middle Ages as a whole. It actually came from Hellenic sources, who had their own weird excuses for hating Jews, and at times it was invoked against early Christians.
interesting fact: the Dreyfus affair directly inspired modern Zionism. Theodore Herzl lived through the event (as well as seeing many anti-semitic protests) during it and came to the belief that if the Diaspora couldn’t be safe in France, one of the most progressive countries on the planet at the time, then they couldn’t be safe anywhere. So he began writing on the Zionist movement, which is credited as starting the spark that began it’s modern rendition.
That was probably the last nail in the coffin. He was already booted out of a Burschenschaft in Vienna, when they started ethnically cleansing the student and sports associations in 1880s and this convinced him that jews cannot be member of the nationalistic German society. Dreyfuss affaire just convinced him that nowhere is safe.
@@janaussiger4111 Very interesting, I didn't know that. The caustic potential of nationalism has always been an interesting topic to me as an American. In many of my circles, your "type" of American nationality is more determined by how you act rather than your heritage, which doesn't seem to be the case in a lot of Europe (this also leads to the strange phenomenon of many Americans latching onto heritage that they are generations removed from to differentiate themselves, such as the oft-lamented "Irish-American"). Granted, it was a different time, and I'm sure that the opinions of the average American were much different in the 19th century (and most likely circles today that still hold those opinions that I don't interact with politically), but it is nonetheless a lens which I am unfamiliar with.
Why do you suppose it is that in a world so dispersed and disparate - racially and culturally - that this world all has a uniform response when this one group, jews, arrive? You when you give reasons that skirt the real reasons, that’s just ANOTHER reason why this happens, right?
@@randomchannel-px6ho of course, previous antisemetic events were important in Herzl’s worldview. but do not delude yourself in the pursuit of correcting someone. On January 5, 1895 Herzl personally witnessed the military and public degradation of Dreyfus. By early June, he was writing “The Jewish State,” finishing in 1896 his *first* Zionist writing (and according to many the foundational text of political Zionism). He convened the first World Zionist Congress in 1897. One could argue that the rise to power of antisemitic demagogue Karl Lueger in Vienna in 1895 was that spark; but according to Herzl’s *own words* that is not the case. If you ask me, it was the event he saw in person, the one that he referenced himself, that was more important. It is obviously not the *only* reason, but that’s *not* what I claimed. I said that the Dreyfus Affair *directly inspired* modern Zionism, and the timeline of events + Herzl’s own words pretty obviously support that. Naturally one event would not be the sole reason for a political movement with the force of Zionism. Antisemitism was everywhere - and the concept of returning to Jerusalem has existed in Jewish prayer for over 1000 years. Don’t be obtuse.
Amazing video! I would just like to point out, that at 28:14, while you are correct that this building is the current seat of the Faculty of Philosophy, it was only completed in 1928. In Masaryk's time as a lecturer, the faculty was headquartered and seated in the old Klementinum, a bit further south.
Great video (as always). Wild that I've never heard of this at all considering how influential the story was and how many people involved later became politically and historically relevant. Thanks for the in depth telling of the whole story
It's a good example of how notoriety and celebrity, no matter the source, is enough to propel people within society. From "all news is good news" to "famous for being famous", the human bias for confusing mere awareness for merit is a constant throughout history.
The fight against Jewishness and Capitalism was the same in their eyes, destroy the unfair system and it's direct contributors. Not so different from a Marxian class war
I was born in Mississippi in 1957, and I remember walking around in our little town with my mom. We were really poor people and I went bare footed in the summer time because shoes were expensive and I only wore them at church and school There were several Jewish owned businesses in the town and my mom had a charge account at most of these stores, there were also some Asian owned stores we shopped at. I didn't think about it back then, but as I grew older and these stores slowly disappeared I wondered how these people got to the town I lived in. It was in the deep South, the Mississippi delta, and I don't recall anyone talking bad about any of those people. My mom said the Jews were "God's chosen people". I can remember sitting in the stores waiting for my mother to get through shopping and reading the funny pages from the news papers. They were always nice to me and sometimes gave me free candy. I never thought anything bad about these people or met anyone who hated them. I'm sure some people didn't like them but my mom wasn't a hateful person, she grew up poor and I guess that makes a difference in your outlook.
Americans had other issues, and still have other issue. I remember that I read some polish travelogue from 1920's about author's visit to the USA. In it there were a few pages describing lynching, Jim Crow and racial tensions in the USA as a whole. At the end author summarized it somewhere along the lines: "I really don't understand why Americans hate the Negroes so much: they have the same religion, customs and language, the only thing they differ is the color of their skin and the Negroes aren't Jews, so Americans haven't any rational reasons to hate them".
@@Wolf-hh4rv Why don't you read some books on Anti Semitism and the rise of Nationalism I know you won't because you are happy with your preconceived notions
What adds to the difficult position of the jews was that the ethnic Germans in Bohemia were also in parts rabidly antisemitic. There were for instance many student and sports associations that started kicking out jews as soon as 1880s. Some of these like Karl Hermann Wolf entered politics and ran on a Programme of deporting jews en mass to Galicia (east Poland). Later on in early 1920s when a proffesor with jewish heritage Samuel Steinherz became president of the Charles University, the german students rioted (including bringing a gallows to the protest) Masaryk as the President of ČSR tried to keep Steinherz at the Uni with all means, but eventually, Steinherz out of fear for his life attempted to resign several times and was always refused by Masaryk and eventually just called in sick indefinitely. Also this is the same time when Franz Kafka is writing his stories full of alienation and identity crises. Might have something to do with all this.
The even more wild thing about Baxa is that while he was later the mayor of Prague, a political office, he was also the president of the Constitutional Court, an office that was supposed to be apolitical, and he held that position until his death in 1938.
To be honest that characteristic "traditional" antisemitism (to not confuse it with antisemitism of the "nazi" type, which is the completely other beast) also never truly went away. In Poland it was based on religion and pre-war socioeconomic structures where Jews have essentially entrenched position in the social pyramid occupying the position of the middle-class. While nobility-derived higher classes were usually friendly toward the Jews, the peasant-derived lower classes often felled that the Jews block their economic advance up the ladder by defending their position and constantly try to con them by using the position of intermediary in the economy. Catholic church also hated Jews due to them being group that directly rejected their control over society (all organized religions have a tendency to hate other ones). It's also ironic that communist period actually conserved that kind of antisemitism by reinforcing it's connection with anticommunism, which is an interesting story of it's own. Later also wall street economy, middle eastern politics and all events that happened during the second world war and it's aftermath were thrown into the mix. Today it's most common among older people, and "religious" part of right wing. Of course party leaders, outside of some small fringe groups, would never be vocal about it, cause in the post-holocaust world it would be a PR nightmare if western media (especially american ones, cause they don't care about historical context, to them antisemitism==nazizm) begin to dug out that stuff, but they cannot openly fight against it to not lost part of their most loyal voting base.
Congratulations on the Bachelor thesis! It warmed my heart a bit to see that there was newspaper pushback against the blood libel, as we often dismiss similar historical injustices with it being "back when everyone thought like this". And I appreciate your acknowledgement at the end that there was never any justice for the victim, and that she was used as propaganda and monetized instead. Who knows how many historical serial killers have gotten away in the past, using blood libel as a smoke screen?
Huh, I never heard about this before. My family is Czech-Jewish and emigrated from Bohemia to the United States in 1854. I assumed things were relatively calm in that part of Austria-Hungary since they spoke Czech/German not Yiddish, lived among Czech immigrants in the United States, and did not express the same bitterness/anger towards Europe that my relatives from interwar Poland did. They almost certainly would have been aware of this kind of event, but the relevant archives are located in Cincinnati so it isn't something I can get hold of immediately. If there is one thing I'd like to learn more about, it is the transitionary period prior to full emancipation, which in my understanding was the culmination of a long process.
Das ist ja ein tolles Video. Ich geniesse jedes Video an dem Sie machen. Nur eine Frage: haben Sie Pläne, Videos auf Deutsch zu machen? Ich bin Deutschlerner, und das würde mir sehr helfen. Das ist aber nur ein Vorschlag. Ihre Videos zur Geschichte interessieren mich ungemein. Schönen Tag noch!
Darüber habe ich tatsächlich nachgedacht, allerdings erscheint mir das Zeit-Nutzen-Verhältnis im Moment noch zu unausgeglichen. Die Videos noch einmal auf Deutsch zu veröffentlichen, würde meinen Zeitaufwand durch Übersetzung, Vertonung und Schnitt noch einmal verdoppeln. Dazu kommt noch, dass ich mit meinem Kanal in erster Linie das Ziel verfolge, die Geschichte Mitteleuropas der angelsächsischen Welt näher zu bringen. Aber wer weiß, vielleicht werde ich eines Tages weit mehr freie Zeit haben und dieses Vorhaben umsetzen können ;)
I am kinda sad that the real story got lost. Recently an independent investigator has collected evidence that shows the person who had the best motivation to kill Anežka was in fact her brother. When their father died the inheritance of their family homestead was split and if he wanted to keep it he was expected to pay her 40 golden (high ammount of money he did not have) to her as soon as she was wed. With her studies to become a seamstress coming to an end and quickly approaching he faced the prospect of having to sell the homestead. At her funeral he had visible wounds on his right hand that he could not explain (probably defense wounds) and only offered his left hand when accepting condplences. He also had no alibi and was the only person that would have profited from her death. There was no evidence of her being sexually assaulted and her clothes strewn around we're thus likely just a smokescreen to hide the real motive. It is the only explanation that is completely reasonable and would be provable in court with today's standards
The Hilsner affair reminds me a lot to the murder of Ernst Winter in early 1900’s Prussia. It is shocking to know that the blood libel lasted until the 20th century. For the case of Ernst Winter I have to recommend the book “The Butcher’s Tale” by Helmut Walser Smith, which I had to read for a seminar. It goes into the details of the case, the sentiment in the region and compiles a history of such accusations and the violence that followed against Jewish communities. Thank you for your great video SirManateee!
Unmentioned in this excellent video is that, due to the effect of prejudice and ethnic hysteria on the investigation and trial, the murderer of Anezka (whoever that was) was not punished. Though people sincerely regretted her death, their animus in fact distracted them from focusing on bringing her justice. So tainted were the investigation and trial that it's even possible that Hilsner was in fact guilty and a murderer was freed. (This possibility of actual guilt also separates the Hilsner and Dreyfus affairs, since Dreyfus was indubitably innocent and had been treated abominably.)
Sayimg that Masaryk did not support jewish assimilation aa ‘ethnic Czechs’ is incorrect interpretation of his support to allowing Jews to ethnicly identify aa such. He merely supported right of choice. No need to speak of hos feiendships and support for many notable writers (of jewish descent) who are now classics of Czech literature and were part of that ‘assimilation trend’. But it should be noted that Sionism was more prevalent among German-speaking Jews in the Czech lands as opposed to CZ-speaking jews…. hint, hint;)
That is of course correct, which is why Jews in Czechoslovakia could choose their nationality however they wished. This was merely about his personal opinions about the "Jewish Question" :)
@@SirManateee his personal ‘opinions’ were to assimilate Jews into the Czech culture, and to ‘carve out’ out as many German-speking jews as possible from the german ethnic minority group… as one way of reducing numbers of Germans un Czech lands
@@letecmig But Masaryk was also an advocate of 'sons of the soil' that Cz & German speakers were all Bohemians/Moravians/Silesians. Didn't his Czech Mum speak German and his official father was a Slovak while his actual father was an Austrian landowner? It's a real shame, before Czech revival and German nationalism ca.1830 the main cleavage was not Czech/German but Catholic/Protestant.
Interestingly many Jews left CzS on independence (the local židovský hřbitov near me stopped being used in 1920. They probably didn't think CzS would be as successful as it was.
@@jcoker423 regardless of what any theory of Masaryk’s biological parents are(you cite one of many, unvariably without any evidence)….. this does not change the fact that he was Czech nationalist. Just not of primitive kind. His efforts to make ethnic Germans feel ‘comfortable’ in new state were utilitarian and based on the interest of stability of a state that was by definition ethnically-based. Masaryk’s humanism and modernity were not in contrast with his erhnic nationalism. If you read more than tithes of his political writing, you would see this crystal clear
@@therealignotus7549 : Well, there were reasons to skeptical of that claim, and either way, being drug out of prison by a mob and hung by said mob is deeply problematic (especially here in the South).
@@ggunnelspctlol no. When even a southern state in the early 20th century chose to not blame the black guy... Can you be more specific as to the reasons for being skeptical of his guilt? Except for the usual racism that permeates the "innocence theories", that are usually based on little more than the supposed good social standing of the white-passing guy as opposed to the uneducated black guy ? Like, only the ADL actually pushes for that ridiculous conspiracy theory that he was somehow framed. Also, by the way "being drug out of prison and hung by a mob" (aka lynching) is a weird thing to be upset about in this case, when the ADL more or less pushes for the theory that the black guy was guilty. Which leaves little to the imagination as to what would've happened if the guy's supporters (who ended up creating the ADL) would've gotten their way.
I think Leo Franks case, although not in favor of the extra judicial lynching, he was tried by peers, which included Jews, and he was definitely guilty. Hell,I think the state by law had the most pro Jewish protection legislation during the time of the case.
@@zandrus9191 Mary Fagin had sawdust in her lungs, so how could she have been (ilovecensorship)ed in Frank’s office? Moreover, all the evidence against him was circumstantial and character. Jews are certainly capable of doing bad things, but Leo Frank did not (ilovecensorship) that child.
Were the Jews of Bohemia really speaking German in their daily lives? I find it more likely they were speaking Yiddish, which of course is a German dialect, but I can imagine many Czech natives wouldn't know the difference.
The Manatee is back! Hurry! I might write something more substantial once I'll finish the video. 😉 Edit: In hindsight, my comment seems a bit too cheerful, given the topic of the video.
Great videos as always but I wonder if you know whether or not the nazis utilized Thomas masaryks involvement in the case and his symphathy for the jewish community as propaganda and how was he portrayed whilst the czech were occupied?
15:23 Why was Hilsner "not exactly likeable" according to you? Because he had a mental disability? Because nobody wanted to employ him? Why are you promoting discrimination against people with a disability while fighting discrimination against Jews?
Maybe simply because people did not liked him? For the same reasons people don't like unemployed bums? Mentioning he was mentally disabled is not promotion of discrimination, NOT mentioning it would be pretending that there was no discrimination.
The force that caused liberalism to take over is liberalism being better at controlling the masses at our current technology level than everything else. Like feudalism in the Middle Ages. Replace every single Jewish person with an A10 Aryan Swede but change nothing else about the society - and everything will develop identically the same. It’s survival of the fittest. Moralism & sentimentality is irrelevant There are no sacrifice rituals and if you believe there are you are flat earth tier low IQ
The force that caused liberalism to take over is liberalism being better at controlling the masses at our current technology level than everything else. Like feudalism in the Middle Ages. Replace every single Jewish person with an A10 Aryan Swede but change nothing else about the society - and everything will develop identically the same. It’s survival of the fittest. Moralism & sentimentality is irrelevant There are no sacrifice rituals and if you believe there are you are flat earth tier low IQ
Why? Because it’s about Jewish people? I support Palestine but it’s pretty dumb every time Jews are mentioned trying to tie them to the current war even if they loved 100 years ago and didn’t even live in the region.
Sorry for the long wait. Here's a longer video for you as compensation x
Incredible story. This is worth the wait. Thank You so much Sir Manatee!!!!!!
Congrats on the bachelor's thesis! Knowing the high quality and thought-out nature of your videos, I have no doubt you wrote an excellent one.
I don't know why, but I've been subscribed to you for quite some time now but I haven't been getting any of your videos when they drop. Do you know what might be happening? Or why?
I have no trouble getting anyone else's drops, so I don't know. I pressed the bell icon when I subscribed, but I have no idea why it's happening, unless it's RUclips itself? I don't know mate. All I do know is that it's not your fault mate. I don't blame you in the slightest.
Anyway, thanks for this interesting video upload. I really appreciate these kinds of videos, as they show direct links to modern day Anti-Semitism and racism more broadly.
Thanks again, mate 👍
@@frenzalrhomb6919 Thanks for telling me :)
This is probably the best foreign-language video talking about this chapter of history. As a Czech (and a massive history geek), i thank you for this. CZECHIA MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣❗❗❗ WHAT THE HELL IS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 🔥🔥🔥🔥❓❓❓
Jew here. Czechia best country in europe❤
the Czechs were one of the main suppliers of resources during the 1948 war. without them, there probably wouldnt be a home for Jews today :)
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The funny thing about nationalists is being proud of their nation under a video about their nation's antisemitism. 😂
one correction is that the blood libel is much older than William of Norwich and the Middle Ages as a whole. It actually came from Hellenic sources, who had their own weird excuses for hating Jews, and at times it was invoked against early Christians.
A good point
Thanks for the clarification!
A niche-channel talking about middle-european history in the last centuries has 10.000 views after 24h.
Love it
Really good video, Sir Manatee. It seems we, as humans, never learned from our mistakes...as we could unfortunately see today.
interesting fact: the Dreyfus affair directly inspired modern Zionism. Theodore Herzl lived through the event (as well as seeing many anti-semitic protests) during it and came to the belief that if the Diaspora couldn’t be safe in France, one of the most progressive countries on the planet at the time, then they couldn’t be safe anywhere. So he began writing on the Zionist movement, which is credited as starting the spark that began it’s modern rendition.
That was probably the last nail in the coffin. He was already booted out of a Burschenschaft in Vienna, when they started ethnically cleansing the student and sports associations in 1880s and this convinced him that jews cannot be member of the nationalistic German society. Dreyfuss affaire just convinced him that nowhere is safe.
@@janaussiger4111 Very interesting, I didn't know that. The caustic potential of nationalism has always been an interesting topic to me as an American. In many of my circles, your "type" of American nationality is more determined by how you act rather than your heritage, which doesn't seem to be the case in a lot of Europe (this also leads to the strange phenomenon of many Americans latching onto heritage that they are generations removed from to differentiate themselves, such as the oft-lamented "Irish-American").
Granted, it was a different time, and I'm sure that the opinions of the average American were much different in the 19th century (and most likely circles today that still hold those opinions that I don't interact with politically), but it is nonetheless a lens which I am unfamiliar with.
Why do you suppose it is that in a world so dispersed and disparate - racially and culturally - that this world all has a uniform response when this one group, jews, arrive?
You when you give reasons that skirt the real reasons, that’s just ANOTHER reason why this happens, right?
How romantic, and false. Herzel and others had already been dreaming of the idea for awhile (precisely because of incidents like the Dreyfeus affair)
@@randomchannel-px6ho of course, previous antisemetic events were important in Herzl’s worldview. but do not delude yourself in the pursuit of correcting someone.
On January 5, 1895 Herzl personally witnessed the military and public degradation of Dreyfus. By early June, he was writing “The Jewish State,” finishing in 1896 his *first* Zionist writing (and according to many the foundational text of political Zionism). He convened the first World Zionist Congress in 1897.
One could argue that the rise to power of antisemitic demagogue Karl Lueger in Vienna in 1895 was that spark; but according to Herzl’s *own words* that is not the case. If you ask me, it was the event he saw in person, the one that he referenced himself, that was more important.
It is obviously not the *only* reason, but that’s *not* what I claimed. I said that the Dreyfus Affair *directly inspired* modern Zionism, and the timeline of events + Herzl’s own words pretty obviously support that. Naturally one event would not be the sole reason for a political movement with the force of Zionism. Antisemitism was everywhere - and the concept of returning to Jerusalem has existed in Jewish prayer for over 1000 years.
Don’t be obtuse.
If I was your university lector/professor, I would be astounded at your rigorous academic structure in literature searching and sourcing :D
Cheers! :D
Amazing video! I would just like to point out, that at 28:14, while you are correct that this building is the current seat of the Faculty of Philosophy, it was only completed in 1928. In Masaryk's time as a lecturer, the faculty was headquartered and seated in the old Klementinum, a bit further south.
Thanks for the correction! It was a bit tricky to find the appropriate buildings for this time, especially because Prague had two universities
Great video (as always). Wild that I've never heard of this at all considering how influential the story was and how many people involved later became politically and historically relevant. Thanks for the in depth telling of the whole story
It's a good example of how notoriety and celebrity, no matter the source, is enough to propel people within society. From "all news is good news" to "famous for being famous", the human bias for confusing mere awareness for merit is a constant throughout history.
2:30 Ah yes, the problems of capitalism being blamed on jewish people and other minorities instead on the system itself. Classical
Still common today, alas. Mankind never learns.
The fight against Jewishness and Capitalism was the same in their eyes, destroy the unfair system and it's direct contributors. Not so different from a Marxian class war
@@francisdec1615Yeah
😂 like jews arnt the reason theirs war in the world today
@@idanthyrsus6887 Because they "arnt". "Aryan" capitalists and politicians are behind most wars.
I was born in Mississippi in 1957, and I remember walking around in our little town with my mom. We were really poor people and I went bare footed in the summer time because shoes were expensive and I only wore them at church and school
There were several Jewish owned businesses in the town and my mom had a charge account at most of these stores, there were also some Asian owned stores we shopped at. I didn't think about it back then, but as I grew older and these stores slowly disappeared I wondered how these people got to the town I lived in. It was in the deep South, the Mississippi delta, and I don't recall anyone talking bad about any of those people. My mom said the Jews were "God's chosen people". I can remember sitting in the stores waiting for my mother to get through shopping and reading the funny pages from the news papers. They were always nice to me and sometimes gave me free candy. I never thought anything bad about these people or met anyone who hated them. I'm sure some people didn't like them but my mom wasn't a hateful person, she grew up poor and I guess that makes a difference in your outlook.
Similar experience , but in Eastern Europe they were hated everywhere. It is almost a taboo, but one has to ask why they were always a hated minority.
Americans had other issues, and still have other issue. I remember that I read some polish travelogue from 1920's about author's visit to the USA. In it there were a few pages describing lynching, Jim Crow and racial tensions in the USA as a whole. At the end author summarized it somewhere along the lines: "I really don't understand why Americans hate the Negroes so much: they have the same religion, customs and language, the only thing they differ is the color of their skin and the Negroes aren't Jews, so Americans haven't any rational reasons to hate them".
@@Wolf-hh4rv Why don't you read some books on Anti Semitism and the rise of Nationalism
I know you won't because you are happy with your preconceived notions
@@krazownik3139 so why is it that the Poles hated the Jews so much? A genuine question, I not making a statement.
Manatee's back!!! You made my day 🎉
What adds to the difficult position of the jews was that the ethnic Germans in Bohemia were also in parts rabidly antisemitic. There were for instance many student and sports associations that started kicking out jews as soon as 1880s. Some of these like Karl Hermann Wolf entered politics and ran on a Programme of deporting jews en mass to Galicia (east Poland).
Later on in early 1920s when a proffesor with jewish heritage Samuel Steinherz became president of the Charles University, the german students rioted (including bringing a gallows to the protest)
Masaryk as the President of ČSR tried to keep Steinherz at the Uni with all means, but eventually, Steinherz out of fear for his life attempted to resign several times and was always refused by Masaryk and eventually just called in sick indefinitely.
Also this is the same time when Franz Kafka is writing his stories full of alienation and identity crises. Might have something to do with all this.
your Czech pronunciation is very good :)
You one of the blokes who play medieval Cz instruments in the Old Town Square at Christmas time ?
Im so happy when people do czech history videos and the ones from you are always so good!
The even more wild thing about Baxa is that while he was later the mayor of Prague, a political office, he was also the president of the Constitutional Court, an office that was supposed to be apolitical, and he held that position until his death in 1938.
To be honest that characteristic "traditional" antisemitism (to not confuse it with antisemitism of the "nazi" type, which is the completely other beast) also never truly went away. In Poland it was based on religion and pre-war socioeconomic structures where Jews have essentially entrenched position in the social pyramid occupying the position of the middle-class. While nobility-derived higher classes were usually friendly toward the Jews, the peasant-derived lower classes often felled that the Jews block their economic advance up the ladder by defending their position and constantly try to con them by using the position of intermediary in the economy. Catholic church also hated Jews due to them being group that directly rejected their control over society (all organized religions have a tendency to hate other ones). It's also ironic that communist period actually conserved that kind of antisemitism by reinforcing it's connection with anticommunism, which is an interesting story of it's own. Later also wall street economy, middle eastern politics and all events that happened during the second world war and it's aftermath were thrown into the mix.
Today it's most common among older people, and "religious" part of right wing. Of course party leaders, outside of some small fringe groups, would never be vocal about it, cause in the post-holocaust world it would be a PR nightmare if western media (especially american ones, cause they don't care about historical context, to them antisemitism==nazizm) begin to dug out that stuff, but they cannot openly fight against it to not lost part of their most loyal voting base.
Kudos for your attention to detail, display of sources and great pronunciation in four languages. You got a new subscriber.
Its insane how quickly people come to believe in total bullshit simply because they want to.
It’s not always “total BS”. Substance behind some age old beliefs. Question don’t be intimidated by PC.
I remember an old saying:
If you hate someone, you will find more reasons to hate them more...
@@Wolf-hh4rv
You might want review this video and why it makes your comment an obscenity
Your work is amazing. Thank you for covering this case, I didn`t know about it and it was fascinating.
Congratulations on the Bachelor thesis! It warmed my heart a bit to see that there was newspaper pushback against the blood libel, as we often dismiss similar historical injustices with it being "back when everyone thought like this". And I appreciate your acknowledgement at the end that there was never any justice for the victim, and that she was used as propaganda and monetized instead. Who knows how many historical serial killers have gotten away in the past, using blood libel as a smoke screen?
Great video! It's the first time the RUclips algorithm has ever showed me a good video by a small creator!
Thanks for this video! A scheinem dank
Great Video, once again! Keep up the great work!
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Best day ever when Sir Mantee Release a videom
Great video and I appreciate how you actually periodically show sources in the video
23:27 that guy would later on become Czechoslovakias first president
and he was one of the biggest advocates of Zionism there is pictures of him coming to visit the kibbutz Beit Alfa
@@ישייפרח-ל8ד Imagine defending the rights of one oppressed people only to go to Palestine and start an ethnostate
@@TheHorseOutside ok like what do you want me to say
@@ישייפרח-ל8ד nothing really, just a shame how someone can fall so far
@TheHorseOutside you know idc about you or your opinion right?
I'm very grateful for that thoroughly researched piece of history.
Thank you very much!
love ur stuff man
Another great video. No need to apologise for not uploading, I believe that we all understand that you have your own life.
Huh, I never heard about this before. My family is Czech-Jewish and emigrated from Bohemia to the United States in 1854. I assumed things were relatively calm in that part of Austria-Hungary since they spoke Czech/German not Yiddish, lived among Czech immigrants in the United States, and did not express the same bitterness/anger towards Europe that my relatives from interwar Poland did. They almost certainly would have been aware of this kind of event, but the relevant archives are located in Cincinnati so it isn't something I can get hold of immediately. If there is one thing I'd like to learn more about, it is the transitionary period prior to full emancipation, which in my understanding was the culmination of a long process.
O think you deserve more subscribers with the clear amount of effort put in your work
Das ist ja ein tolles Video. Ich geniesse jedes Video an dem Sie machen. Nur eine Frage: haben Sie Pläne, Videos auf Deutsch zu machen? Ich bin Deutschlerner, und das würde mir sehr helfen. Das ist aber nur ein Vorschlag. Ihre Videos zur Geschichte interessieren mich ungemein. Schönen Tag noch!
Darüber habe ich tatsächlich nachgedacht, allerdings erscheint mir das Zeit-Nutzen-Verhältnis im Moment noch zu unausgeglichen. Die Videos noch einmal auf Deutsch zu veröffentlichen, würde meinen Zeitaufwand durch Übersetzung, Vertonung und Schnitt noch einmal verdoppeln. Dazu kommt noch, dass ich mit meinem Kanal in erster Linie das Ziel verfolge, die Geschichte Mitteleuropas der angelsächsischen Welt näher zu bringen. Aber wer weiß, vielleicht werde ich eines Tages weit mehr freie Zeit haben und dieses Vorhaben umsetzen können ;)
@@SirManateee vielen Dank dafür!
I am kinda sad that the real story got lost. Recently an independent investigator has collected evidence that shows the person who had the best motivation to kill Anežka was in fact her brother. When their father died the inheritance of their family homestead was split and if he wanted to keep it he was expected to pay her 40 golden (high ammount of money he did not have) to her as soon as she was wed. With her studies to become a seamstress coming to an end and quickly approaching he faced the prospect of having to sell the homestead. At her funeral he had visible wounds on his right hand that he could not explain (probably defense wounds) and only offered his left hand when accepting condplences. He also had no alibi and was the only person that would have profited from her death. There was no evidence of her being sexually assaulted and her clothes strewn around we're thus likely just a smokescreen to hide the real motive. It is the only explanation that is completely reasonable and would be provable in court with today's standards
The Hilsner affair reminds me a lot to the murder of Ernst Winter in early 1900’s Prussia. It is shocking to know that the blood libel lasted until the 20th century. For the case of Ernst Winter I have to recommend the book “The Butcher’s Tale” by Helmut Walser Smith, which I had to read for a seminar. It goes into the details of the case, the sentiment in the region and compiles a history of such accusations and the violence that followed against Jewish communities. Thank you for your great video SirManateee!
He's back😮😮😮
Great video!
Thank you for covering the less common stuff. ^^
Great video
Great video as always. I will add that there are a number of streets and squares named for Masaryk in Israel.
Unmentioned in this excellent video is that, due to the effect of prejudice and ethnic hysteria on the investigation and trial, the murderer of Anezka (whoever that was) was not punished. Though people sincerely regretted her death, their animus in fact distracted them from focusing on bringing her justice. So tainted were the investigation and trial that it's even possible that Hilsner was in fact guilty and a murderer was freed. (This possibility of actual guilt also separates the Hilsner and Dreyfus affairs, since Dreyfus was indubitably innocent and had been treated abominably.)
Sayimg that Masaryk did not support jewish assimilation aa ‘ethnic Czechs’ is incorrect interpretation of his support to allowing Jews to ethnicly identify aa such. He merely supported right of choice. No need to speak of hos feiendships and support for many notable writers (of jewish descent) who are now classics of Czech literature and were part of that ‘assimilation trend’. But it should be noted that Sionism was more prevalent among German-speaking Jews in the Czech lands as opposed to CZ-speaking jews…. hint, hint;)
That is of course correct, which is why Jews in Czechoslovakia could choose their nationality however they wished. This was merely about his personal opinions about the "Jewish Question" :)
@@SirManateee his personal ‘opinions’ were to assimilate Jews into the Czech culture, and to ‘carve out’ out as many German-speking jews as possible from the german ethnic minority group… as one way of reducing numbers of Germans un Czech lands
@@letecmig But Masaryk was also an advocate of 'sons of the soil' that Cz & German speakers were all Bohemians/Moravians/Silesians. Didn't his Czech Mum speak German and his official father was a Slovak while his actual father was an Austrian landowner?
It's a real shame, before Czech revival and German nationalism ca.1830 the main cleavage was not Czech/German but Catholic/Protestant.
Interestingly many Jews left CzS on independence (the local židovský hřbitov near me stopped being used in 1920.
They probably didn't think CzS would be as successful as it was.
@@jcoker423 regardless of what any theory of Masaryk’s biological parents are(you cite one of many, unvariably without any evidence)….. this does not change the fact that he was Czech nationalist. Just not of primitive kind. His efforts to make ethnic Germans feel ‘comfortable’ in new state were utilitarian and based on the interest of stability of a state that was by definition ethnically-based. Masaryk’s humanism and modernity were not in contrast with his erhnic nationalism. If you read more than tithes of his political writing, you would see this crystal clear
Great video honestly but not mentioning that Baxa was the first Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court is almost criminal
I love the usage of contemporarish photographs :)
You could also draw a parallel with the lynching of Leo Frank in Atlanta. The ADL formed in part as a result of this event.
Leo Frank was guilty tough…
@@therealignotus7549 : Well, there were reasons to skeptical of that claim, and either way, being drug out of prison by a mob and hung by said mob is deeply problematic (especially here in the South).
@@ggunnelspctlol no. When even a southern state in the early 20th century chose to not blame the black guy...
Can you be more specific as to the reasons for being skeptical of his guilt? Except for the usual racism that permeates the "innocence theories", that are usually based on little more than the supposed good social standing of the white-passing guy as opposed to the uneducated black guy ?
Like, only the ADL actually pushes for that ridiculous conspiracy theory that he was somehow framed. Also, by the way "being drug out of prison and hung by a mob" (aka lynching) is a weird thing to be upset about in this case, when the ADL more or less pushes for the theory that the black guy was guilty. Which leaves little to the imagination as to what would've happened if the guy's supporters (who ended up creating the ADL) would've gotten their way.
Sir Manatee!! Could you tell the story of the actions leading to the execution of Admiral Kolchak please???
You are the best channel on youtube Sir Manatee.
I don't know if it's the best, but it's for sure one of the most distinguished. His mustache looks a bit like the one of Karel Baxa though... (/s)
Und wie schnell vergessen Leute diese wichtigen Lektionen… nieder mit Antisemitismus und anderen Arten von Diskriminierung!
Have you ever considered doing a video on the seven of Göttingen?
Potentially. Maybe within the wider context of the authoritarian policies of Ernst August
The Manatee is back to shed more light on lesser known stories from history.
Europe not be Jew hating for five minutes challenge (Impossible difficult) this is giving Leo Frank and Mendel Bielis and it’s all just a nightmare
I think Leo Franks case, although not in favor of the extra judicial lynching, he was tried by peers, which included Jews, and he was definitely guilty. Hell,I think the state by law had the most pro Jewish protection legislation during the time of the case.
@@zandrus9191 Mary Fagin had sawdust in her lungs, so how could she have been (ilovecensorship)ed in Frank’s office? Moreover, all the evidence against him was circumstantial and character. Jews are certainly capable of doing bad things, but Leo Frank did not (ilovecensorship) that child.
Leo Frank was guilty
You make my life better
You too
Fate of Hilsners defence counsel (Zdenko Auředníček) is also interesting.
That is very surprising to find out that that blood libel stuff originated in Norwich
Were the Jews of Bohemia really speaking German in their daily lives? I find it more likely they were speaking Yiddish, which of course is a German dialect, but I can imagine many Czech natives wouldn't know the difference.
What's your bachelor thesis about?
Karl Kraus (Viennese satirist of Jewish descent) and his relationship with Zionism
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this was such a good video, until you reminded me of my bachelor's thesis, urgh, I'm busy procrastinating over here
The Manatee is back! Hurry! I might write something more substantial once I'll finish the video. 😉
Edit: In hindsight, my comment seems a bit too cheerful, given the topic of the video.
Read Blood Passovers by Professor Ariel Toaff. It introduces much more context that is left out of this video.
you should do a video about jack lang in australia
Great videos as always but I wonder if you know whether or not the nazis utilized Thomas masaryks involvement in the case and his symphathy for the jewish community as propaganda and how was he portrayed whilst the czech were occupied?
Lore of The Hilsner Affair momentum 100
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could you publicise your thesis?
Maybe once I get the results back haha
6:34 ah yes Qanon
they’re eating the -children- dogs
This seems like it will be a calm comment section
The "Ban user on this channel" button is ready
6:48 Please don't discriminate against people with a psychological disability while trying to combat discrimination against Jews.
Ahh I remember the day I got my horns removed , good times .
15:23 Why was Hilsner "not exactly likeable" according to you? Because he had a mental disability? Because nobody wanted to employ him? Why are you promoting discrimination against people with a disability while fighting discrimination against Jews?
Do you think a mentaly ill person was considered likeable in the 19th century? Wtf are you on about
Maybe simply because people did not liked him? For the same reasons people don't like unemployed bums? Mentioning he was mentally disabled is not promotion of discrimination, NOT mentioning it would be pretending that there was no discrimination.
6:18 , 6:34 hahaha what crazy conspiracy theories (looks into camera)
the European mind is a flat circle
The force that caused liberalism to take over is liberalism being better at controlling the masses at our current technology level than everything else. Like feudalism in the Middle Ages. Replace every single Jewish person with an A10 Aryan Swede but change nothing else about the society - and everything will develop identically the same. It’s survival of the fittest. Moralism & sentimentality is irrelevant
There are no sacrifice rituals and if you believe there are you are flat earth tier low IQ
6:20 hmmmmmmmmm
The force that caused liberalism to take over is liberalism being better at controlling the masses at our current technology level than everything else. Like feudalism in the Middle Ages. Replace every single Jewish person with an A10 Aryan Swede but change nothing else about the society - and everything will develop identically the same. It’s survival of the fittest. Moralism & sentimentality is irrelevant
There are no sacrifice rituals and if you believe there are you are flat earth tier low IQ
This video is in bad taste considering what’s going on in Gaza right now don’t you think?
F gaza
Why? Because it’s about Jewish people? I support Palestine but it’s pretty dumb every time Jews are mentioned trying to tie them to the current war even if they loved 100 years ago and didn’t even live in the region.
No I don't
@@SirManateeeWell that’s sadly not surprising considering where you're from…
@@melvinbrotherofthejoker436 what has Gaza got to do with the video?